About the Journal

The Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics (JPM) core mission is to publish high-quality research in the philosophy of mathematics and in the application of formal methods to philosophical problems concerning mathematics. JPM will be happy to consider contributions ranging from technical articles (having, however, clear philosophical motivations and aims) to purely philosophical, formalism-free articles. JPM also welcomes research that departs from traditional philosophical methodology and is interested in submissions employing methods from historical and social sciences, cognitive science, and neuroscience. 

Format and Miscellanea

For the style, we will ask our contributor to use a specific LaTeX style. The typesetting should then require minimal work.

  • 1 issue per year (online first articles)
  • Accepting discussion notes
  • Special issues: no
  • Book reviews: no
  • Articles max length: 12.000 words
  • Discussion notes max length: 4.000 words

The journal welcomes submissions on a wide range of themes, including:

  • Ontology, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Mathematics
  • Logic and Foundations
  • History, Cultures, and Values in Mathematics
  • Computation, Complexity, and Formal Learning
  • Cognition, Language, and Education in Mathematics

Peer-Review

Each submission to Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics is subject to a rigorous quality control and external peer-review evaluation process before receiving a final decision. The initial in-house quality control check deals with issues such as competing interests; ethical requirements for studies involving human participants or animals; financial disclosures; full compliance with Journal of the Philosophy of Mathematics’s data availability policy, etc. 
If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to at least two external anonymous reviewers. The peer review can be single or double-blind. If the reviews are positive, but the manuscript requires to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version.

The Editors are responsible for conducting the peer-review process and for the final decision on the submitted article.

Open Access Policy

Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Firenze University Press at the University of Florence, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access”, we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain is to guarantee the original authors with control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in our journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0). Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites prior to and during the submission process and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication without embargo. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Publication Frequency

Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics publishes one regular issue per year. Manuscripts are accepted at any time through the online submission system. Journal of the Philosophy of Mathematics publishes Online First Articles. This feature allows final revision articles to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final print and online journal issue. 

The only difference between Online First and issue publication will be the citation details and the addition of the Online First publication date to the second version.

Each OnlineFirst article has a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This should be included in all citations. DOIs provide a persistent, permanent way to identify manuscripts published in the online environment, even after they are assigned to the issue. Information such as volume, issue, and page numbers are not allocated to OnlineFirst articles (as that information is not known until the issue is completed).

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Publication Fees

Unlike many open-access journals, Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics does not charge any publication fee.

Waiver Information

Fee waivers do not apply at Firenze University Press because our funding does not rely on author charges. 

Publication Ethics

Responsibilities of Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics's editors, reviewers, and authors concerning publication ethics and publication malpractice are described in Firenze University Press’s Guidelines on Publication Ethics.   

Corrections and Retractions

In accordance with the generally accepted standards of scholarly publishing, Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics does not alter articles after publication: "Articles that have been published should remain extant, exact and unaltered to the maximum extent possible".
In cases of serious errors or (suspected) misconduct Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics publishes corrections and retractions (expressions of concern).

Corrections
In cases of serious errors that affect or significantly impair the reader’s understanding or evaluation of the article, Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics publishes a correction note that is linked to the published article. The published article will be left unchanged.

Retractions 

In accordance with the "Retraction Guidelines" by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics will retract a published article if: 

  • there is clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation)
  • the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
  • it turns out to be an act of plagiarism
  • it reports unethical research.

An article is retracted by publishing a retraction notice that is linked to or replaces the retracted article. Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics will make any effort to clearly identify a retracted article as such.
If an investigation is underway that might result in the retraction of an article Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics may choose to alert readers by publishing an expression of concern.

Reversion of rights

Articles may sometimes be accepted for publication but later rejected in the publication process, even in some cases after public posting in "Just Accepted" form, in which case all rights will revert to the author.

Archiving

Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics and Firenze University Press are experimenting a National legal deposition and long-term digital preservation service.